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zone are likely to open. >> disturbing attacks. >> they kicked really hard, really hard. >> two teenagers now behind bars accused of beating up an elderly sikh man, how one of the suspected attackers is related to a bay area police chief. >> congressman in court, new york republican chris collins faces a judge after being indicted on charges of insider trading. >> congressman collins cheated our markets and our justice system. >> the 4 on 2 starts now. the largest fire in california history continues to rage on and continues to take its toll on many surrounding communities. all the smoke and ash in lake county means the start of the school year is going to be delayed for many students. welcome, everyone, to the 4 on
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2. i'm alex alex savidge. >> -- i'm alex savidge. >> i'm heather holmes. >> the river and ranch fires burning together make up what's being called the massive mendocino complex. the river fire has burned nearly 49,000 acres. good news this afternoon. it is now 81% contained, but the much larger ranch fire has burned more than 250,000 acres and it is just 46% contained. >> in lake county children were scheduled to get back to school today, but now that is all on hold because of the fire. ktvu's tom vacar joins us now from lakeport's clearlakeshore line where back to school centers around massive clean-up projects that are happening in three hard hit school districts. tom? >> reporter: you bet. here's the situation. the air here is so bad right now that the sports teams are simply not allowed to practice outside whatsoever. if they do any practice, it has to be done indoors, but only after everything is cleaned. that's one of the issues and
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it's the kind of problem that comes up now, the aftermath, so to speak, even though these buildings are still potentially threatened, that's what's going on. here's the report on the schools. schools. we first encountered serious ground smoke in middleton 30 miles south of lakeport. as we got closer to lakeport, the smoke became thicker and smellier. the lakeport unified school district has 1,500 students spread over five sites. >> we've had four years of fire. so we are used to some of the negative effects of the fire. >> reporter: from those previous fires the school districts around here came up with the wildfire equivalent of snow days, smoke days. >> now superintendents in the county sat down and said at what point do we allow students to come to school but not go outside and have a smoke day following those recommendations and at what point do we have to call off school? >> reporter: with so much dust, ash and smoke damage to school property, school
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officials decided on smoke weeks. >> so when we took a look and put all of that together, kind of a timeline, not a date on a calendar but more what has to happen before it's safe for children to come to school, it was looking like a minimum of about two weeks. >> reporter: the district called on the local serve-co franchise because of its experience. >> we got all the public schools in santa rosa. it was huge. that taught us how to clean schools. >> reporter: much as sporting rules demand safety, the school rules here, part of their basic mission statement demands cleanliness. >> we got our air scrubbers in as soon as we could before our crews started cleaning process. >> reporter: other kinds of preopening activities will take a little time as well, which is why lakeport, nearby upper lake and lucerne schools have agreed all to open their doors to students on the 22nd. >> people have really been
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pulling together, but there's trauma here and so the adults need to be taken care of. so we have plans for that to put on some training and then to really help the students. >> reporter: now the superintendent told me that when she and her staff first came back to start the reopening process, all of them got sick because the smoke fumes within the buildings were so bad. they say if it takes more than two weeks to get this done, if it has to go past the 22nd, so be it. reporting live, tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. >> hopefully that is not the case. thank you. some fire victims in lake county now face yet another threat, norovirus. health officials say they're working to control a norovirus outbreak at the lower lake high school evacuation center. people recovering from the illness are kept separate from people without symptoms. additional hand washing stations have been set up next to bathrooms and food lines. the stomach bug is highly contagious and can spread quickly. no word yet on the number of people that may be sick.
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we want to give you a live look outside right now and you probably have seen it. it is another smoky day all across the bay area because of all the smoke moving in from those fires up north. for more on the conditions here in the bay area we want to bring in chief meteorologist bill martin. tough conditions out there, especially for folks with breathing conditions. >> it really is, the elderly and folks with young issues or perhaps recent pneumonia because your lungs have been compromised, a lot of smoke from the big fires in northern california. the color palette is set up so you can pick up the smoke, which is here in the valley. the winds at the surface are generally light and variable. what you're seeing in the inland bay valleys is smoke especially in the morning hours drifting into places like concord, walnut creek, livermore valley. the air quality is bad. it's a spare the air day and as we go into tomorrow, the air quality won't be much better. it's going to be about the same, maybe a little better, but the idea that these fires are so big that they are --
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look at that cloud. that's smoke right there, smoke from one end of the valley all the way south almost to bakersfield. so these are big fires and they are going to get a little boost from the weather as we head into thursday through saturday. we'll see in these red areas a high fire danger alert go into effect, fire weather watch, if you will. there was a fire weather watch for the burn areas in northern california, but they dropped that. that's sort of a good thing for us. the idea is you are still going to see some strong winds in northeast california which will translate to this area. as we go forward here, we can take a look at the current conditions. well, the tomorrow morning conditions for the carr fire and the mendocino complex fire. you can see about where they are, no big changes. the weather pattern hasn't been abysmal for firefighters, but it hasn't been amazingly helpful. it hasn't been hurtful either. that's just summertime, hot and dry. redding tomorrow, 105. that's going to be a problem.
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temperatures are coming up tomorrow, should be the warmest day of the week for redding, 95 at the complex, 25% humidity. the complex fire is getting a little higher humidity except in the carr fire you're seeing a lot lower humidity. in the bay area cool to hot. that's how it's going today and tomorrow. temperatures will sort of stay in this realm. we will see the 50s coastside and upper 90s inland the next 48 hours. smoke tomorrow is back in the forecast. police in orange county say they made an arrest in the wildfire in the santa ana mountains. 51-year-old forrest gordon clark was taken into custody this morning on suspicion of felony arson. he's held on $1 million bail. investigators said the fire started near clark's cabin in the mountains. prosecutors say the charges could bring a life sentence. >> arson is a terrible crime that destroys dreams and not only even when people are not physically hurt, it could
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destroy that baby blanket that you held that still smells like your kid or that family portrait of your grandparents getting married. so it's obviously an extremely serious crime. >> the holy fire has burned more than 6 square miles and destroyed 12 structures. mandatory evacuations remain in effect in both orange and riverside counties. the fire is just 5% contained this afternoon. under hazy skies from california wildfires today environmental activists called for urgent action to address climate change. tens of thousands of people are expected to march next month in san francisco a few days before the global climate action summit. today organizers gathered near the ferry building to get the word out. they discussed the connection between wildfires and climate change. they also talked about the impact the fossil fuel industry has had on bay area communities. >> we know we cannot continue in this current path. it is destroying our homes.
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it is destroying our neighborhoods. we know that there is a better way and we intend to lead on that way in renewable energy and making sure that we leave no communities behind. we leave no workers behind. >> the march is set for saturday, september 8th. governor brown is scheduled to attend the climate summit which begins september 12th. san francisco mayor london breed taking on the city's housing and homeless crisis announcing today that the city will provide $5.8 million to help fund legal services for tenants facing eviction. it's to help them better understand their rights and to challenge landlords. breed says about 70% of the people living on the streets in san francisco at one point were housed in the city before they were homeless. >> i personally know what it feels like to face housing insecurity. in fact, a couple of years ago when i was on the board of supervisors, my building was sold and i didn't know what would happen to me and the
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other folks who lived in the building. >> breed said the housing shortage is a contributing factor with landlords kicking out tenants who have lived in their building a few years to make way for higher paying renters. two people have been arrested accused of attacking a 71-year-old sikh man in the central valley. 18-year-old tyrone mcallister and a 16-year-old boy were both taken into custody this morning. police say sahbit singh natt was seen walking in graystone park monday morning when the two young men walked up, pushed him to the ground and spat on him. the two suspected attackers face charges of attempted robbery, elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon. one suspect, mcallister, is the son of union city police chief darryl mcallister. the union city police department put out this statement today saying, "chief mcallister is estranged from his son and that he expresses deep concern for the victim and
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the victim's family and he remains steadfast that his son, an adult, must be accountable for his actions." brock turner was convicted of three felony charges in the sexual assault of an intoxicated woman outside a party on the stanford campus in 2015. turner was sentenced to six months in jail and released after three months with credit for good behavior. his attorney argued that turner's conviction should be overturned because of a lack of evidence saying that turner was not naked and only engaged in "sexual outercourse" with no intent to commit rape. the judicial review board denied the appeal on several grounds saying there was substantial evidence turner should have known the woman was too intoxicated to consent to sexual activity. coming up here a startling discovery, court documents reveal boys held captive on a new mexico property were being
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trained to become domestic terrorists. >> water man flowing onto a road in palo alto for nearly a month. we look into why it's taking so long to fix this problem.
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♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ there was a lot of frustration in one palo alto neighborhood where thousands of gallons of water have spilled onto a road for weeks now. >> ktvu's ann rubin joins us now live to explain the delay in stopping the water flow there and also fixing the problem. >> reporter: city crews are frustrated, too. the parts they need to make
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repairs are out of stock. until they get them the water here continues to flow. this water leak has been flowing for one month gushing from under a metal a flat and plate and flowing down the -- metal plate and flowing down the road. >> yes. it's frustrating because it's not being taken care of. >> my husband and i joke about finding a way to use the water to water our lawn because it's just water that's going down the drain. >> reporter: about 2 to 3 gallons a minute down the drain. the city estimates they've lost between 80,000 to 120,000 gallons total since the leak began july 11th , but they say turning the water off is not an option. >> this is a major water transmission pipeline and if we were to shut this down, it would shut off water service for a number of customers in the area including a couple schools. so we don't want to do that. >> reporter: they couldn't repair the leak either. palo alto has been waiting
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weeks to get the parts they need for the job. >> it's a somewhat unusual size which means that it required specialty parts which unfortunately the manufacturer happened to be out of stock. we had to place an order and it's taken a little while for those parts to come in. >> reporter: the city thinks they'll be ready next week. the trouble, construction and closed lanes of traffic, will now coincide with the first week back to school. gunn high school and fletcher middle school are nearby. officials are working on a plan. >> making sure that the students have a safe route to school, we'll try to minimize any traffic impacts due to the construction. >> reporter: while the timing isn't great, residents say they're relieved something is finally being done. >> i'm happy to hear they're actually planning to fix it. it's been a really long time. >> reporter: once crews get the necessary parts they expect the repairs could take about a week to complete. >> ann rubin live in the south
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bay, thank you. new york city is putting a cap on new licenses for ride hailing services such as uber and lyft. the city council voted to put a one year freeze on adding drivers. it also set a minimum driver wage that's equivalent to what yellow cab drivers make. supporters say car services are flooding the city, worsening congestion and harming the traditional yellow cab drive. stunning allegations against a man linked to a new mexico compound where 11 starving children were found. prosecutors claim he was training those children to carry out school shootings. the judge ordered the man held today. authorities went to the compound looking for the man's missing disabled son from georgia. there was a boy's body found at that compound. however, the remains have not been positively identified.
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a new york republican congressman has been indicted on insider trading charges. chris collins is accused of using insider information about a biotechnology company to save his family tens of thousands of dollars. here's the details of the
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indictment. >> these charges are a reminder that this is a nation of laws. >> reporter: federal prosecutors announcing a list of charges again republican congressman chris collins wednesday. the new york lawmaker is accused of insider trading and lying to the fbi as part of an alleged scheme that included his family members. >> congressman collins cheated our markets and our justice system. >> reporter: the alleged crimes are tied to an australian biotechnology company called innate immunotherapeutics. representative collins served on the company's board of directors and is accused of warning his son in 2017 that a multiple sclerosis drug trial failed. >> he placed his family and friends above the public good. congressman collins was a major investor in innate and so was his son cameron. >> reporter: when the trial's failure was made public, innate stock dropped 92%. prosecutors say the information
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collins provided saved eight others over $768,000 in losses. collins' team, though, is pushing back. in a statement his lawyers say, "it is notable even the government does not allege congressman collins traded a single share of innate therapeutic stock. we are confident he will be completely vindicated and exonerated." collins was arraigned before a federal judge in manhattan. his bail was set at $500,000 and he was ordered to hand over his diplomatic passport. >> congressman collins is the 13th wealthiest member of congress worth $44 million. let's talk more about the charges. we'll bring in cal business law professor robert bartlett. thank you so much for joining me. this doesn't have anything to do with information that the congressman gathered as his role as a congressman, but rather as his role as a member of this board of directors on this company. >> exactly. it's basically garden variety
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insider trading. being on the board of directors he had first access to whether this drug clinical trial was actually going to succeed or fail. he found that it failed. he tipped off his son to help him avoid losing several hundred thousand dollars. >> what struck me about this was here you have a member of congress who is on the board of a company based in australia. does that raise some eyebrows in itself? >> yeah. absolutely. naturally when you're a member of congress, you have access and influence in a way that your ordinary director of a company does not. so there's clear sort of ethical issues you would have to be wary of if you were going to try to wear both hats as a representative of your district as well as a representative of a board of directors. >> so it is legal to be on a company's board of directors? >> it's legal if done in an ethically found fashion. so there had been an ethics probe ongoing at least since 2013 into whether or not he had used his influence as a congressman to basically help the company that he was a member of the board of
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directors of. >> and held a lot of stock in. we all know as members of congress, they're privy to a lot of information. they aren't allowed to use the privileges of their position to make these well timed stock deals. >> absolutely. when you're a member of congress, you get nonpublic material information concerning all sorts of companies and industries and it's illegal if you try to trade on that information. >> i want to shift gears and talk a little bit about elon musk and his tweet yesterday sort of saying on this idea of inside information, he tweeted he was thinking about taking the company, the bay area electric carmaker private. he did this during the trading day. what are sort of the rules when it comes to a company's use of social media? can a ceo like elon musk make a big announcement like this? >> it depends. first the statement, there's been some questions about when he said funding secured, whether that it is an accurate
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statement, the massive amount of money he'd need to do this transaction, and in terms of the disclosure we have a regulation called fair disclosure which is supposed to be about making sure all investors are able to get access to company information at the same time. so if the company tells people that it's going to be disseminating and sharing information on the personal twitter account of elon musk, actually that would be permissible but only if they make it clear to investors that's where you need to look to find out information about tesla's car production, for instance. >> what about using social media, facebook, twitter to make announcements say about a company's metrics, how things look for the fiscal year, a new product on the horizon? does that fall within sec guidelines? >> it's the same principle as long as the company has put the public on notice they can be sharing these metrics on a social media account. it's actually okay. a few years back in 2013 reese hastings did post a metric when netflix users hit a certain metric, he put it on his
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facebook and the fec investigated and said we won't hold you liable, but going forward everyone should know if you want to use social media like this, you have to make it really clear to investors they have to look at the social media accounts where you might be disclosing. >> social media changing so many things. talking about yesterday and stock trades we did see after the string of tweets from elon musk, the price really soared. was that market manipulation? ket manipulation? >> well, if it truthful, what he said, it would not be market manipulation and that's the concern. is he going to take this company private? it's a big deal. you'd have to go through an enormous amount of process and lining up funding would be very challenging. so if it turns out it is not true and he knew it wasn't true, he'll have a big problem because he made a statement to the market that was obviously very material and important. >> robert, thank you so much to come in.
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>> thank you. president trump may not be sitting down with special counsel robert mueller in the russia meddling investigation. so where does the investigation go now? we'll explore that coming up after the break. >> reporter: the trade war with china is heating up. so what does that mean for your wallet? i'll take a look at the numbers coming up. california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones, - (phone ringing) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. call or visit
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terms for such an interview. the president's legal team is pushing for a narrower focus during the questioning. for more on all the legal maneuvering that's taking place here, we're joined live by stanford law professor and former federal prosecutor david skalanski. president trump's lawyers sent a counteroffer back to special counsel saying they do not want any questions about possible collusion. how likely is it this strategy pays off in the end for them? >> i think what they said is they don't want the president to be questioned about obstruction of justice which amounts to saying that they are happy to have him meet with mueller only if mueller agrees that half of his investigation will be off the table. i think that's a nonstarter. >> trump's personal attorney, rudy guiliani, reportedly said again he is will be to consider allowing some questions related to obstruction as long as there are not what he calls perjury traps. will you give us a sense of
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exactly what that means and do you think that robert mueller's goal is to catch the president lying? >> no. i don't think that's mueller's goal. aperjury trap is a term lawyers use meaning when the question is asked the person you're speaking to you hope will lie under oath and you can charge him with perjury. it would be unusual that the president be under oath. my guess is mueller hasn't asked for that. >> president trump reportedly expressed interest in sitting down and talking with the special counsel. do you buy that? >> no. i don't believe that. it's his decision whether to meet with mueller. he knows that. his lawyers know that. so this is like the president saying he would like to release his tax returns, but he's under audit. he can meet with mueller tomorrow if he wants to and he hasn't done it because he's afraid to do it. >> so it's all this sort of wrangling taking place over the terms and conditions of any
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sort of potential interview with the president. we continue to hear from many on the president's team and others that it's really that this special counsel investigation has gone on far too long. it's time for it all to wrap up do. you feel that way that, this investigation has run its course -- way, that this investigation has run its course? >> no, i don't. this is an investigation that's a little over a year old and when you compare it to comparable investigations in the past, mueller is moving very rapidly and there's absolutely no reason to think that this should be nearing an end. the whitewater investigation went on for eight years. the iran contra investigation went on for 6 1/2 years. these investigations take time. there's no reason to think mueller should abort this early. >> all right. if the terms for a potential sitdown interview with the president cannot be worked out do, you foresee robert mueller subpoenaing the president and can a sitting president even be
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subpoenaed? >> well, i think there's a good chance that's what mueller would do and if the president resisted that subpoena, there could be a court battle. president clinton was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury and ultimately agreed to do so. so there wasn't a court test of whether he had to agree to do it. >> okay. that is stanford law professor david skalanski talking about the ongoing negotiations over a potential sitdown interview with the special counsel by president trump. we appreciate your time today, david. thank you. >> my pleasure. the trump administration announced another $16 billion worth of tariffs on chinese goods meaning you could see more price hikes on a number of products. griff jenkins has more from washington. >> reporter: president trump still playing tough on trade announcing another $16 billion worth of tariffs on chinese goods targeting mostly agriculture and auto parts
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including speedometers and antennas. anxious workers and auto parts suppliers are now anticipating prices on new cars and motorcycles will rise significantly in the coming months. >> sales are going to go down. it's a trickle effect really of the entire industry and our economy in general. >> reporter: another big worry, the chinese response. beijing announced retaliation on a range of u.s. goods including smoked salmon, fish oil and soybeans which could hurt american farmers and fishermen. both of those industries rely heavily on exports to china and they're afraid an increase in prices will lead to lower sales of american products, a trend that already appears to be underway. >> now we can hardly buy american beef. for those that still have stocked american beef, they probably hide it in the hope of selling it at the higher price. >> reporter: but the tariffs might not be having the intended effect. imports from china to the u.s. unexpectedly spiked by more than 27% last month driven by
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high consumer demand which means the trade relationship is still tilted heavily in beijing's favor. >> it ultimately leaves the u.s. in a fairly tight spot if we see so much of their export demand taken off the mark because of these tariffs. -- market because of these tariffs. >> reporter: this new round of tariffs on chinese tariffs is set to go into effect on august 23rd. in washington, griff jenkins, fox news. following the death of a jail inmate one lawmakers is calling for changes, the legislation put forth aiming helping those released from custody next. >> we're tracking smoke out there, especially in the inland bay valleys, details coming up.
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on capitol hill critics are questioning whether the trump administration's crackdown on the southern border is coming at the expense of enforcing other laws. we'll hear how the immigration caseload is affecting u.s. attorneys. >> reporter: every president has priorities and in 2012 obama exercised his. >> individuals who do not present a risk to national security or public safety will be able to request temporary relief from deportation. >> reporter: six years later. >> we're stuck with these horrible laws. >> reporter: the trump administration reversed that decision. >> if you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. >> reporter: under the
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president's zero tolerance policy prosecutors in june charged 46% of adults detained at the border, but that syracuse university study also found the immigration caseload overwhelming u.s. attorneys with the odds of being prosecuted for many federal offenses declining. >> my thoughts are that we have a terrible problem with departments that were not ready. >> reporter: of all cases filed by the five u.s. attorneys on the southwest border, 86% in march involved immigration, by94%. meaning out of 12,000 prosecutions more than 11,000 involved illegal entry, harboring illegal aliens or document fraud. >> people assume that means it's consuming 94% of the resources of the office, that's completely wrong. >> reporter: pete nunes spent 16 years as a federal prosecutor. >> you could have one or two u.s. attorneys handling 10, 15,
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20 cases at a time, all of which plead guilty in a day or so. >> reporter: yet the syracuse report found white collar crimes declining, another reason saying zero tolerance doesn't work. presidents clinton, bush and now trump have all tried use prosecution to deter illegal immigration. while zero tolerance is discouraging some adult men, a new report says prosecution does not deter families from trying to enter the u.s. on the heels of a tragic death in the east bay, state senator nancy skinner of oakland is introducing legislation to end the practice of late night jail releases. for details on this we are joined now by state senator skinner. we appreciate your time. i want to get into the particulars of the legislation in a moment, but first, please, talk about the story that prompted you to take action here. . >> absolutely. so my constituent jessica lewis
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was in the santa rita jail and was released at 1:30 a.m. with a b.a.r.t. ticket. generated jail is 31 miles from her home in berkeley. b.a.r.t. doesn't even run at 1:30 in the morning. jessica died four hours later, four hours after her release. this tragedy could have been avoided and it is ridiculous to release a woman in the middle of the night with a b.a.r.t. ticket and then figure that somehow she's going to be safe and successfully reenter after jail. >> you are proposing legislation here in california that would ban late night releases from jails and detention facilities. why do you feel it is so dangerous to release inmates during those off hours and how exactly would this legislation work? >> what my bill would do is have releases be during daytime
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hours when a person can arrange transportation, when they could hopefully get to a -- whether it's a family member or other shelter or place to stay so that they're not left, as i said, at 1:30 in the morning with just a b.a.r.t. ticket when b.a.r.t. isn't even running. so the legislation would restrict releases to daytime hours and then also look at trying to coordinate releases with transportation services and other support services whether it's treatment or housing or what have you so that there's a better opportunity for successful release and certainly avoid these kind of deaths. >> i know that -- i was reading you pointed out here that recently released inmates in many cases in those first hours and days after they are released from jail are, you know, there tend to be issues that they face, especially in terms of getting involved with drugs and overdoses. what are the issues that you see?
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>> well, certainly in a situation like this ifed underlying condition of jessica was being an addict -- this, if the underlying condition of jessica was being an addict, if you're released in the middle of the night, what else is really available to you but drugs? you don't have the availability of a place to stay or a treatment center or a medical, go to see a practitioner in the middle of the night and perhaps if she had been released during daytime hours with the coordination of some services, we could have avoided this tragic death, which is what my intention is. >> how much support do you feel you have for this legislation moving forward? >> well, we're going to have to structure it carefully because all of us have a constitutional right to be released whatever time that our paperwork and such is processed. we cannot hold people against their will, but i'm hoping that we can design the legislation such that the constitutional right is respected at the same time public safety of both the
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person released and the public at large is captured. >> with that said it sounds as though people who do want to be released at this very moment would have the opportunity, but that's the way you'll try to structure it. >> yes. certainly it is our jail personnel, it is within their power in my opinion to process the paperwork such that that paperwork is completed during the daytime hours rather than at 1:30 in the morning. >> okay. state senator nancy skinner from oakland, we appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. we're checking in on the weather right now. what we've got outside is plenty of smoke, an air quality advisory and temperatures today a lot like yesterday. here's the smoke coming down from the fires. obviously this is fog, but you see the smoke in the valley. at night and in the morning it settles into the valley. that's what we've been seeing
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nights and mornings and it's just nasty out there. thursday through saturday we've got this red flag fire weather watch in the northeast part of the state. they did drop the fire weather watch for the redding area, which is good, and as we press into the forecast, it's more of the same, cool at the coast, pretty darn warm inland. the satellite map shows the fog from vancouver island south to point concepcion. the fog will have a little inland push but not a lot that. means temperatures on the coast will continue to be on the cool side. i think outside lands is this weekend. >> is it really? >> i think it's friday, isn't it? look at me knowing all the young things. >> you are much hipper than i. >> wow. what i was getting at was the fog will be in. it will be a cool night on friday. temperatures are generally running warm than last night at this time, 8 degrees warmer in fairfield. there's the fog. it's out there. the smoke doesn't look as bad
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from this angle as it did last night. part of that could be it's more -- before it was really clear yesterday in the city and then it was really smoky. yesterday there was a disparity in cloud cover or haze, but now i think everything is kind of hazy. so the forecast for the morning, there's the fog, fog goes back to the coast. this is the kind of thing we saw today and the day before. there's the temperature, a little warmer inland, maybe 97 degrees for a daytime high instead of 95. 97 in vacaville, 95 in pittsburg and 97 in antioch and in brentwood, 95 in livermore, temperatures peaking tomorrow in terms of the inland valleys. around the bay freemont and sunnyvale not too bad, 62 along the coast at pacifica and half moon bay, so not a bad day tomorrow. the five-day forecast is one of generally the warmest day
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tomorrow and slight cooling off that. tomorrow may be another spare the air day and friday less smoke. the five-day forecast is not a dreadful fire forecast, but it is summer and i keep saying this. it doesn't really matter. as long as the temperatures are in the upper 90s, fire danger in our area will be high and that's how it will be this weekend even though it's cooler. the 49ers are planning a special honor for dwight clark. clark died two months ago after battling als. the team announced this morning it will build two 350-pound statues of dwight clark and one of joe montana to commemorate the catch. they will be 23 yards apart just as the two 49ers were during the famous play back in 1981 during the nfc championship game. the statues will be unveiled outside levi stadium before the 49ers game on october 21st.
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during the game the no. 87 will mark the north end zone commemorating the location of the catch. the 49ers will also wear the no. 87 on their helmets throughout the season and the field bunting will pay tribute to clark and the catch. >> that's such a nice way for him to be remembered. last night in oaklandthe a's hosted african american night at the coliseum. [ singing ] >> the oakland-based r and b group tony, tony, tony sang lift every voice and sing before the game against the dodgers. fans had a chance to hear from a panel discussion featuring some great a's players from the past. >> i feel totally accepted by the folks in the great state of california and the great city of oakland. so i feel like i'm actually rooted in oakland, to use that phrase. >> our fan base is very diverse and we think it's an opportunity to also incorporate our african american fans and celebrate them and the rich
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history of our organization. >> the a's say african american heritage night will become an annual tradition for them. the a's are celebrating their 50th anniversary season this year. >> there was an incredible turnout at the ballpark last night. unfortunately the a's did not get the win. frank is here looking at some of the stories we're working on for ktvu fox 2 news at 5:00. >> b.a.r.t. officers are working long hours and logging massive overtime in an effort to increase safety for riders. today we tagged along with the b.a.r.t. police chief as he made his presence felt on trains, tonight at 5:00 what they found, what they're looking for and why some riders say this still isn't enough. >> a big cat causing some concern in one bay area neighborhood. >> a homeowner doesn't expect this when he got a notification there was movement in his yard even though mountain lion sightings like this aren't rare in his neighborhood. people are being warned to be cautious. >> all those stories are coming
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discounts on amazon orders. an emotional moment outside washington as the son of a soldier listed as mia during the korean war received his father's dog tags. >> after it was returned to the u.s. by north korea. lauren blanchard is in the nation's capital now with more. >> reporter: at least one family getting closure on their missing service member from the korean war, a single dog tag now in the hands of the soldier's sons. >> it's a very mixed, jumbled moment for us because we didn't expect this. >> reporter: army master sergeant charles mcdaniel's dog tag, the first match of items brought home from north korea earlier this month. 55 boxes were turned over, inside? supposed remains of americans killed during the korean war and artifacts. >> the project team is going through all of these remains selecting where we'll take dna samples and getting them into the sampling process. >> reporter: the agency
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responsible for id-ing the remains says it will take time to positives actively match, but their tests are significantly -- positively match, but their tests are significantly more accurate than even a few years ago. the remains were sent to the u.s. from north korea after a summit by the leaders of the two nations. in a ceremony earlier this month vice president mike pence was there to accept the fallen. >> i know president trump is grateful chairman kim has kept his word and we see today as tangible progresses to our peace efforts on the korean peninsula. >> reporter: the defense department said this is the first time in over a decade remains have been repatriated from north korea. some 5,300 american service members are believed to still be missing in the north. in washington, lauren blanchard, fox news. we know who the special guest will be at this year's outside lands music festival in
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san francisco. according to the east bay times, salt and pepper has been announced to headline the house by heineken stage sunday, august 12th. the three day festival kicks off friday, as bill just told us. we just checked the festival's website and three day and single day tickets are still available. you miss salt and pepper at outside lands, do not other. they will be returning to the bay area on september 2nd and doing a show over at the concord pavilion. >> tickets are still available. that's going to do it for us today. the ktvu fox 2 news at 5:00 is coming up right after the break with frank and julie. welcome to the xfinity store. thanks, janet. it's my happy place. you can learn how to switch to xfinity mobile, a new wireless network that saves you cash. and you can get 5 lines of talk and text included with your internet. and over here i'm having my birthday party. dj fluffernutter, hit it! ♪ dj fluffernutter
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ktvu, fox 2 news and 5:00 starts now. this large fire is pushing back at the beginning of the school year for many students. >> the fight against the wild -- largest wildfire is far from over but crews are making progress. the fire is comprised of two different fires. the vigor fire is the ranch fire that has burned 51,000 acres and is 46% contained. the river fire has courts 48,000 acres and is now 81% contained.
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firefighters expect to have both fires contained fully by september 1. >> evacuation centers are full and now unfortunately, there has been an outbreak of nora virus -- norovirus on top of that. it's extremely contagious. >> smoke is also impacting the first day of school. schools are undergoing major cleaning projects. >> reporter: the air quality up here in lakeport is so bad that the sports teams are not allowed to practice outdoors unless the smoke is completely cleared out and that has not happened very much. the only way they can practice if his -- if there is a thorough head to toe scrub down inside.

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